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A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments : together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments, 1875
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1CONTENTS.
3CHAPTER I.—On the Construction of the Violin and other Bow-instruments … … … … … 1
5CHAPTER II.—Account of the most eminent German Makers, who have so successfully imitated the Violins of the Cremonese and those of the celebrated Jacob Steiner, that their Instruments can only be distinguished from the genuine ones by the most experienced persons … 6
7CHAPTER III.—Notice of the most esteemed Italian and Steiner's Violins, with a description of their Structure. Comparison between these and the counterfeit instruments … 16
9CHAPTER IV.—Of the Repair, Preservation, and method of bringing out the Tone of Instruments… … … 30
11APPENDIX.
13No. I.—Method of tracing a beautiful Model for a Violin, by means of a graduated perpendicular line … … 53
15No. II.—Further notice of the Cremonese Makers and some others 60
17No. III.—Some account of the Experiments made by the late Felix Savart … … … … … 70
19No. IV.—Of the Bow … … … … … 82
21No. V.—Of Mutes and Fiddle-holders … … … … 85
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